Debate Over Faculty Power Flares Before Federal Labor Board

By Peter Schmidt

Washington

The American Association of University Professors has joined
other advocates of academic labor in urging the National Labor
Relations Board to abandon the assumption that faculty members at
private colleges have too much influence on the management of their
institutions to join unions.

In briefs submitted to the NLRB last week in a case involving
the attempted unionization of adjunct instructors at Pacific
Lutheran University, in Tacoma, Wash., the AAUP and AFL-CIO both
argue that